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Until reports of her affair surfaced recently Becky was one of the most popular faces on Japanese television. Photograph: Sports Nippon/Getty Images From nightly appearances on TV to persona non grata of Japanese show business in a matter of weeks...

Isuna Hasekura and Jū Ayakura's economics informed fantasy series Spice and Wolf celebrates its 10th anniversary on February 10th. An early look at the celebration plans have a http://hasekuraisuna. jp/ launching on that date, leading into a follo...

Japanese beverage maker Suntory has just announced it will be releasing its first-ever cherry blossom-flavoured Pepsi this spring. From white Pepsi in winter to ghost Pepsi on Halloween, Japan is absolutely spoilt for choice when it comes to limit...

By Jenni . February 8, 2016 . 1:30pm When you think of Digimon, what's the first game to come to mind? Odds are, it's Pokemon, since both titles consist of collecting and raising monsters you'll use in a fight.

Matsui Rena and Charan Po Rantan will release the single Shabon (シャボン) on April 6th. This is the 1st solo project of Matsui Rena since her graduation from SKE48 in August 2015. Matsui Rena makes regular appearances on the radio show Music and Comi...

It has been revealed that an anime adaptation of Daichi Sorayomi's Keijo! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (Hip Whip Girl) manga series has been green-lit. Further information about the anime will be revealed soon. Keijo!

We've seen plenty of good-looking footage for the PS4 version of Attack on Titan, but Koei Tecmo shared a gameplay footage trailer for those of you curious to see what it looks like on PS3 and PS Vita.

Atlus released their latest video for Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final, with an introduction to the demon Sukuna-Hikona, based on the Japanese dwarf deity of healing and sake brewing. Here are details on the history behind the Japanese deity: Sukuna-H...

Good Smile Company finally unveiled their new robotic Hatsune Miku Nendoroid figure last Sunday during Wonder Festival 2016 (Winter). While the robotic figure itself is still has a long way to go, iDoll, which is developing the robotics for this n...

Of course it is. According to NicoNico News, Pepsi Sakura is launching in Japan on March 8. "Sakura" means "cherry blossoms," and this is the latest in a long line of unusual Pepsi flavors to hit the country.

Dystopian societies spreading the love. What They Say: In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. Using extensive surveillance and biological monitoring to gauge the likelihood that individuals will commit a crime, ...

By Sato . February 8, 2016 . 4:30am Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 has recently released in Japan, Asia, and Europe, with the North American version releasing tomorrow, and Bandai Namco announced that its total worldwide shipments have s...

A live-action web drama Terra Formars/Aratanaru Kibou (A New Hope) will start streaming via NTT DoCoMo's online-video service dTV on April 24, five days before the theatrical release of the Takashi Miike-directed feature film in Japan.

A stunning CG trailer has emerged to hype up the oncoming arrival of Street Fighter V, boasting an abundance of exhilarating fights as the franchise's most familiar faces square off: an inaccurate depiction of the game in action that can at least ...

Millions of hard-working people all over the world put extreme amounts of mental effort into learning languages and becoming bilingual. The practical reasons are obvious. Being bilingual opens doors and creates opportunities that wouldn't exist fo...

Bandai Namco Games have released the Opening cinematic for the upcoming release of From Software's Dark Souls III. This new video sets up the tone and setting for the game, as players will traverse the Kingdom of Lothric.

Every February in Sapporo, Japan, massive snow sculptures are carved on display for a week attracting visitors from around the world. This year's festival is honoring the widely popular manga and anime Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) with a s...

We learned back in early December of a new series from P. A. Works in 2016 with their 15th-anniversary project Kuromukuro. We had a few details for it but now through a new live-streamed program for it, a new promo has arrived as well as the news ...

Lantis has posted a five-minute digest trailer for 34-year-old anime voice actress Ryoko Shintani's upcoming live Blu-ray "Happy Happy Smile'15 chu→lip☆STAR" to be released on February 24. The first disc of the 8,424-yen two-disc set contains the ...

By Jenni . February 8, 2016 . 10:00am The meaning behind NIS' new website has been made clear. The company is preparing a third entry in its ClaDun series. ClaDun Sengoku takes players into Arcanus Cella's past, with people getting to create custo...

Sakura Gakuin have revealed the MV for "Kirameki no Kakera" from their 6th album "Sakura Gakuin 2015 Nendo ~Kirameki no Kakera~" (release date: March 3)! Contributor Wanted! ! The short preview has Sakura Gakuin playing by the seashore as warm ray...

Feb9 la tensión, tensione, Spannung, 張力, whatever language you use, these past couple of episodes have been full of it. This entirety of episode 4 was really a 25 minute waiting game, as the spring continued to get wound tighter and tighter and yo...

Daichi Sorayomi's ecchi comedy manga Keijo! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! , AKA Hip Whip Girl, now has an anime adaptation in the works. News about the animated version is revealed in the pages of manga magazine Shonen Sunday, with more details on the series to c...

Luluco apparently spends the series smitten with transfer student AΩ. Nova. (Photo : Crunchyroll) Trigger, the studio behind the likes of Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann, has revealed that they will release a new anime in April called Space Patrol ...

While most of a shows budget for its opening and closing sequences are poured into the hard sell of the opening sequence, there are a lot of good ending sequences out there as well. This is not one of them.

The folks at Warner Bros. didn't pull out all the stops with a new trailer/TV spot during the Super Bowl for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, but they got creative with another advertiser. Working with Turklish Airlines, they put together some ...